The moment a family home in South London was vandalised by a masked hooligan in the middle of the night has been captured on CCTV.

Cath King and her young daughter were both asleep when they woke-up to the terrifying sounds of breaking glass in the early hours of Wednesday 14 November.

The CCTV footage at the property on Tellson Avenue, Greenwich, clearly shows a person wearing a balaclava and holding a large weapon enter the front garden of the property and brazenly swing the weapon towards the front of the house.

After several seconds of attacking the house, the thug scurries out of the front of the property clearly holding the weapon in his left hand and goes out of sight of the CCTV camera.

Miss King said: "It was 2.47am on Wednesday morning, both me and my eight-year-old daughter were fast asleep ready for the school run the next day.

"I heard smashing, it sounded like there were 10 people outside of my home, the noise was unbelieveable.

Seconds before a person swings the weapon towards the front of the house

"I sat on the floor with my back to the door and my feet on the bed to block us in the bedroom whilst I called the police.

"I also told my daughter to Facetime her aunt to also call the police, as I couldn't get through to the police operator and I thought someone was in our house.